Sports Reporter
JAMMU: Hosts Jammu and Kashmir Police has been pitted against CRPF in the quarterfinal of the 65th All India Police Hockey Championship scheduled for tomorrow at K K Hakku Stadium, here at 12:00 Noon. With league round already completed on Tuesday, six other quarterfinalists have also been spotted. These teams which are defending champion include ITBP, Punjab Police, BSF, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Now, all four quarterfinals have been scheduled for tomorrow.
While ITPB shall take on Odisha at 8:00 AM Punjab has been pitted against Tamil Nadu at 10:00 AM. Similarly, in the last eight stages match, BSF shall take on Karnataka at 2:00 PM.
Earlier, in the last league round matches, played on Tuesday, CRPF trounced Haryana Police 3-1 to qualify from group-C. Karnataka outplayed West Bengal 4-1 and Odisha held Manipur
to 1-1 draw. In other
matches, ITBP blanked Jharkhand Police 6-0 while BSF defeated Uttar Pradesh 5-3.
Important to mention here that Manoj Singh Mehra of Uttrakhand made third hat trick of the tournament striking four times to make it a big 5-0 win for the side in a group-A match.
The Detailed Results: CRPF beat Haryana 3-1 (Javed Khan, 3rd; Bikesh Kumar, 19th; Jayant Tirkey, 25th. Jatinder Kumar, 40th); Bihar defeated Pondicherry 3-2 (Samuel Guria, 39th, 48th; MD Sultan Ansari, 45th. Dominic Sathosh, 65th; Karthikayan, 69th); Karnataka blanked West Bengal 4-1 (B Kasiviswanadham, 10th; S Chethan Kumar, 51st, 62nd; Venkatesh R Kyarakatti, 65th. Kishore Bahadur Tahpa, 28th); Manipur drew against Odisha 1-1 (M Shanti Kumar, 8th. Sushil Kujur, 59th); CISF defeated Telengana 5-1 (Mangra Munda; 5th; Mangra Munda, 13th;Neeraj Yadav, 24th; Ashok Sony, 55th;
Harpreet Singh, 65th. G Sailish, 69th); Uttrakhand blanked RPF 5-0 (Manoj Singh Mehra, 8t, 30th, 31st, 34th; Bharat Negi, 48th); ITBP trounced Jharkhand 6-0 (Suneel Kujur, 2nd, 4th; Harvinder Singh, 14th, 43rd; Seraj Alam, 38th, Ashish Kumar, 67th).
FIXTURE: Quarterfinals: ITBP v/s Odisha at 8:00 AM; Punjab v/s Tamil Nadu at 10:00 AM; CRPF v/s J and K at 12:00 Noon; Karnataka v/s BSF at 2:00 PM tomorrow at K K Hakku Stadium.
